How do I load a file from resource folder?

Question

My project has the following structure:

/src/main/java/
/src/main/resources/
/src/test/java/
/src/test/resources/

I have a file in /src/test/resources/test.csv and I want to load the file from a unit test in /src/test/java/MyTest.java

I have this code which didn't work. It complains "No such file or directory".

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (new FileReader(test.csv))

I also tried this

InputStream is = (InputStream) MyTest.class.getResourcesAsStream(test.csv))

This also doesn't work. It returns null. I am using Maven to build my project.

Answer 1

Now I am illustrating the source code for reading a font from maven created resources directory,

scr/main/resources/calibril.ttf

Font getCalibriLightFont(int fontSize){
    Font font = null;
    try{
        URL fontURL = OneMethod.class.getResource("/calibril.ttf");
        InputStream fontStream = fontURL.openStream();
        font = new Font(Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT, fontStream).getFamily(), Font.PLAIN, fontSize);
        fontStream.close();
    }catch(IOException | FontFormatException ief){
        font = new Font("Arial", Font.PLAIN, fontSize);
        ief.printStackTrace();
    }   
    return font;
}

It worked for me and hope that the entire source code will also help you, Enjoy!

Answer 2

The following class can be used to load a resource from the classpath and also receive a fitting error message in case there's a problem with the given filePath.

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException;

public class ResourceLoader
{
    private String filePath;

    public ResourceLoader(String filePath)
    {
        this.filePath = filePath;

        if(filePath.startsWith("/"))
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Relative paths may not have a leading slash!");
        }
    }

    public InputStream getResource() throws NoSuchFileException
    {
        ClassLoader classLoader = this.getClass().getClassLoader();

        InputStream inputStream = classLoader.getResourceAsStream(filePath);

        if(inputStream == null)
        {
            throw new NoSuchFileException("Resource file not found. Note that the current directory is the source folder!");
        }

        return inputStream;
    }
}

Answer 3

I get it to work without any reference to "class" or "ClassLoader".

Let's say we have three scenarios with the location of the file 'example.file' and your working directory (where your app executes) is home/mydocuments/program/projects/myapp:

a)A sub folder descendant to the working directory: myapp/res/files/example.file

b)A sub folder not descendant to the working directory: projects/files/example.file

b2)Another sub folder not descendant to the working directory: program/files/example.file

c)A root folder: home/mydocuments/files/example.file (Linux; in Windows replace home/ with C:)

1) Get the right path: a)String path = "res/files/example.file"; b)String path = "../projects/files/example.file" b2)String path = "../../program/files/example.file" c)String path = "/home/mydocuments/files/example.file"

Basically, if it is a root folder, start the path name with a leading slash. If it is a sub folder, no slash must be before the path name. If the sub folder is not descendant to the working directory you have to cd to it using "../". This tells the system to go up one folder.

2) Create a File object by passing the right path:

File file = new File(path);

3) You are now good to go:

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));

Answer 4

Here is one quick solution with the use of Guava:

import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
import com.google.common.io.Resources;

public String readResource(final String fileName, Charset charset) throws IOException {
        return Resources.toString(Resources.getResource(fileName), charset);
}

Usage:

String fixture = this.readResource("filename.txt", Charsets.UTF_8)

Answer 5

I solved this problem by adding /scr/main/resources folder to my Java Build Path

Answer 6

Import the following:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;

The following method returns a file in an ArrayList of Strings:

public ArrayList<String> loadFile(String filename){

  ArrayList<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();

  try{

    ClassLoader classloader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
    InputStream inputStream = classloader.getResourceAsStream(filename);
    InputStreamReader streamReader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(streamReader);
    for (String line; (line = reader.readLine()) != null;) {
      lines.add(line);
    }

  }catch(FileNotFoundException fnfe){
    // process errors
  }catch(IOException ioe){
    // process errors
  }
  return lines;
}